We spent 1 week in Kuching, which was both good and bad. When we arrived we could see it was a quiet place, there were no tuks tuks or people trying to sell you things left right and centre, which made a relaxing change. Kuching was a strange place, it appeared as though it was built up rather rapidly to accomodate for a tourist boom, however the tourist industry had died here, and as time went on that just became more and more apparent. There were very few restaurants and the ones we did find weren't good, everywhere closed by 6pm and it was VERY expensive. Beer is more expensive in Kuching than in the UK. Our accomodation was very budget, it was dark, dingy and damp. We were going to treat ourselves and stay in
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